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Friday, December 23, 2016

Putin Respects Strength Which Is The Reason He Respects Trump and Hates Obama

Russia's Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was unfazed by President-elect Donald Trump's plans to boost the U.S. nuclear arsenal, praising Trump for being in touch with U.S. public opinion while branding the Democrats sore election losers.

Speaking at his annual news conference in Moscow, the Russian president
said earlier comments he had made about his country's own military
modernization had been misunderstood in the United States and that he accepted
that the U.S. military, not Russia's, was the most powerful in the world.

Putin said on Thursday Russia's military was "stronger than any potential
aggressor". Trump later tweeted that the United States "must greatly strengthen
and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses
regarding nukes."

Asked to clarify his comments on Friday, MSNBC reported that Trump had said:
"Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all."

But Putin said he did not regard the United States as a potential aggressor and
had
been talking about countries he thought might realistically launch an attack on
Russia.

"I was a bit surprised by the statements from some representatives of the current
U.S. administration who for some reason started to prove that the U.S. military
was the most powerful in the world," Putin said, referring to State Department
comments from Thursday.

"Nobody is arguing with that."

Putin said he saw nothing new or remarkable about Trump's own statement
about wanting to expand U.S. nuclear capabilities anyway.

"In the course of his election campaign he (Trump) spoke about the necessity
of strengthening the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and strengthening the armed forces.
There's nothing unusual here," said Putin.

"If anyone is unleashing an arms race it's not us ... We will never spend resources
on an arms race that we can't afford."

Trump's comments, made in a tweet, alarmed non-proliferation experts who said
that a boost to the U.S. arsenal could fuel global tensions.

'SORE LOSERS'

The Russian leader, speaking in a news conference that lasted just under four
hours, fielded questions on everything from Syria to the economy, Ukraine and
sports doping.

But he only became really animated when talking about the United States,
launching a scathing attack on the Democrats.

He said they had forgotten the meaning of their own name and were sore losers.

"The current administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party are trying
to blame all their failures on external factors," said Putin.

"(We are talking about) a party which has clearly forgotten the original meaning
of its own name. They (the Democrats) are losing on all fronts and looking
elsewhere for things to blame. In my view this, how shall I say it, degrades
their own dignity. You have to know how to lose with dignity."

The Obama administration and U.S. intelligence officials have accused Russia
of trying to interfere with the U.S. election by hacking Democratic Party accounts.
Information from those hacks was leaked online, causing political problems for
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

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